. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. to seize thefoothold this insurrection gave them. ABritish army under Sir Arthur Wellesley(afterwards the Duke of Wellington) landedin Portugal, defeated the French at Vimiero,and compelled them to retire into news of these reverses caused a verygreat excitement in Germany and Austria,and the Tsar assumed a more arrogantattitude towards his ally. There was another meeting of these twopotentates at Erfurt, in which the Tsar wasmanifestly less amenable to the dazzlingtactics of Napoleon than he had four
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. to seize thefoothold this insurrection gave them. ABritish army under Sir Arthur Wellesley(afterwards the Duke of Wellington) landedin Portugal, defeated the French at Vimiero,and compelled them to retire into news of these reverses caused a verygreat excitement in Germany and Austria,and the Tsar assumed a more arrogantattitude towards his ally. There was another meeting of these twopotentates at Erfurt, in which the Tsar wasmanifestly less amenable to the dazzlingtactics of Napoleon than he had four years of unstable ascend-ancy for France, while the outlines on themap of Europe waved about like garmentson a clothesline on a windy day. Napoleonspersonal empire grew by frank annexationsto include Holland, much of western Ger-many, much of Italy, and much of theeastern Adriatic coast. But one by one theFrench colonies were falling to the British,and the British armies in the Spanishpeninsula, with the Spanish auxiliaries,slowly pressed the French northward. All. ^ T3 ?0£ 0 3 rt O u ST ?+-• o •d S V ^ c ^M u 3 Ji ;4 +rf ^^ in «r •4^ >« tn B Ou •3 •0/1 V4 (« •OjO j3 2 « •0 cI - C4 fi> o •a 3 e J3 Oto •»-(/) o 00 s .8 CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 495 ^^ IMVIKE of NAFOLBOM about I&IO Europe was getting very weary of Napoleon with a spirit that surely a Corsican shouldand very indignant with him ; his antagonists have understood ; it needed only a breachnow were no longer merely monarchs and with Alexander I to set this empire of bluffministers, but whole peoples also. The and stage scenery swaying toward itsPrussians, after the disaster of Jena in 1807, downfall. The quarrel came. Alexandershad set to work to put their house in order, feelings for Napoleon had always been ofUnder the leadership of Freiherr von Stein a very mixed sort; he envied Napoleon asthey had swept aside their feudalism, abol- a rival, and despised him as an underbredished pri
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